Mara yurriku: Western Desert sign languages

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We acknowledge and thank the Ngaanyatjarra community and Ngaanyatjarra Council (Aboriginal Corporation) for supporting this research. We thank Norma Giles, Tjawina Porter, Nancy Jackson and Sheila Giles. Research by Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis has been supported by ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme) (SG0187) and an ARC Discovery Indigenous Award (IN150100018). Jennifer Green was supported by ARC (Australian Research Council) Fellowships (DP110102767 and DE160100873) and Inge Kral by an ARC DECRA Award (DE120100720). In December 2016 Lauren Reed, a native signer of Auslan, joined the research team as an ANU Summer Scholar sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL) (CE140100041). She annotated the corpus and conducted archival research. We acknowledge CoEDL, and the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at the Australian National University, for their support. We thank David Nash, Michael Walsh and Doug Marmion for their advice. Thanks also go to Lew Parlette for allowing us access to his film recordings of sign, to Luke Scholes from MAGNT for his assistance with obtaining these, and to Nick Thieberger for allowing us to view his film recordings of sign. Thanks to Philip Jones at the South Australian Museum for locating and providing us with copies of Tindale's manuscripts and Jane Simpson for checking Tindale journal references. We thank AIATSIS collection services, particularly Kylie Simpson and Lisa Marcussen. We also thank Rob Douglas for permission to reproduce the figure from his father's manuscript, and Elizabeth Holland for permission to republish photographs of Cyril Holland. Unless acknowledged otherwise, all other photographs are by Jennifer Green. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on a draft of this paper.